Back when Clare were routinely playing and beating Kilkenny in league finals, the late Jackie O’Gorman was The Man.

The NAC has lost a lot of credibility in this entire saga, with their flawed process and logic and understanding of what constitutes “a serious injustice” as well as the practices and rules concerning last-second free throws.

In 1998 Clare were reigning Munster and All Ireland champions when they headed to Thurles to play a raw if promising young Cork team. 

Caitlin Clark not only puts the ball in the basket but she puts bums on seats like no one else.

Is the GAA and its calendar any better for no marquee games on the most celebrated national holiday of all?

Andy Farrell's side travel to London this weekend.

Everyone remembers where they were and who they were with on 3/2 when they learned the news that the finest in Gaeldom – an abstract, sometimes even mawkish construct but apt in each of these cases – had fallen.

Their task? Well, normally the word ‘develop’ or ‘development’ is synonymous with ‘football committee’ but not in this instance.

League games between the pair might not be what makes Kerry and Dublin special, but they can make winter nights special.

So how tuned into it have you been, really?In the States this is when the masses flick a switch. With the Super Bowl over, interest in the NBA will go from casual to keen.